BY URARIANO MOTA Celso Marconi, the longest-lived cinema critic in the world, recently commented on his Facebook page: “After 1964, the 1st of April ceased to be a playful day [in Brazil]. Sad.” He is right. The military coup took place on April 1, 1964. But as this date is the universal day of the lie, the abusive propaganda of the […]
BY LAURENT ROSS Where do capitalists come from? How did we get from medieval feudalism with its kings and queens, knights and ladies, and poor exploited peasantry to the economic system that now dominates most of today’s world: capitalism? Ancient humans barely got by day to day. Everything the typical man and woman did during the day was for themselves and […]
By Scott Hiley On March 18, Paris arose to the thunder-burst of ‘Vive la Commune!’ […] When ordinary workers dared for the first time to infringe upon the governmental privilege of their ‘natural superiors’… the old world writhed in terror at the sight of the red flag, the symbol of the Republic of Labor, floating over city hall. — Karl Marx, The […]
The Communist Party USA stands in solidarity with the families of the eight dead in Georgia, the people of Georgia, and the nation’s Asian communities in the wake of the recent attack that occurred in Acworth and Atlanta. The result of one gunman’s hate rage is eight dead, of whom six were Asian Americans, seven were women, and two white. […]
Why is it that Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd, is on trial? It seems an obvious question, until you realize that in Minnesota alone, there have been 405 documented cases of killings by police, yet only one police officer has been convicted for murder, in […]
The following “Principles for an Emergency Relief Unity Program” has been issued by the CPUSA. The pandemic and the crisis millions are facing have revealed that the status quo is not sustainable. Bold, transformative action is urgently required to meet the emergency needs of working-class people, especially essential frontline workers and those suddenly unemployed — disproportionately low-wage, Black, Latinx, Native, […]
By CJ Atkins After more than 40 years of dominating our economic and political life, the extreme free market capitalist ideology of neoliberalism is starting to show some serious cracks. “Trickle down” policies that have for decades shoveled money toward the top at the expense of the bottom are breaking down and giving way to a new willingness by governments […]
On February 25, a little over a month since taking office, President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. Air Force to bomb Syria. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby stated, “These strikes were authorized in response to recent attacks against American and Coalition personnel in Iraq.” Further, “we have acted in a deliberate manner that aims to de-escalate the overall situation in both […]
On January 29, Senate leader Chuck Schumer, known as a rather moderate liberal from New York, tweeted, “Today would be a great day for President Biden and Vice President Harris to #CancelStudentDebt.” This pointed demand was followed by Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) taking to Twitter two days later and calling for the same action to be carried out by the […]
BY:DARRELL RANKIN Frederick Engels (1820–95) and his close friend Karl Marx (1818–83) dedicated their lives to prepare the working class for its revolutionary future. As Vladimir Lenin put it, the two “taught the working class to know itself and be conscious of itself, and they substituted science for dreams.” In Engels’ and Marx’s formative years, the newly forming industrial urban working […]